Page 127 of The Pacifist
“It was just because I got burned by a jellyfish and it hurt like a bitch.”
Shelly took a sip of her drink. “You still cried.”
“There might have been a few tears but that’s because it got me at my crotch and I was afraid I might not be able to use it again.”
Jonah, and Finn scrunched up their faces in grimaces of sympathy pain.
“What’s a jellyfish?” Magni asked.
“It’s a fucker who lives in the sea and looks completely innocent until it touches your skin and burns your balls off.”
“You’re shitting me?” Magni stared at Marco. “You lost your balls because you swam in the ocean?”
“No, I still have them, but it’s fucking painful to be burned by those little animals, and there can be a whole swarm of them.”
With an expression of horror, Magni turned his head and called out to Khan, who stood with Pearl and my mom, not too far away. “You’d better fucking win that election, Khan.”
“What happened?” Khan called back.
“Our plan B of living on a beach just lost its appeal. There are real monsters in the ocean that we didn’t know about.”
“Come on.” Jonah led me to the dance floor, creating a bubble for him and me where our rhythmic movements were in sync and our smiles and touches worked as foreplay for our wedding night.
Dancing and chatting until one in the morning, we left the party to consummate our marriage.
“This is our first night as man and wife,” Jonah whispered after we were done with our second round. Like me, Jonah was warm and sweaty from our intense lovemaking.
“I’m just so grateful that I get to do this with you.”
“Because you feel safe with me?” He let his hand slide up my arm.
I nodded. “Yes, and because no one makes me feel as good about myself as you do. When I’m with you I never worry that you might find me too soft or too weird. My pacifistic Motlander ways don’t offend you and I can be myself with you.”
Over the last two weeks, Jonah and I had tried out at least a dozen of theKama Sutrapositions, but we always came back to him on top of me with my legs wrapped around him.
“There’s nothing better in life than being this close to you. It’s like that story about man and woman being one being before we were separated. When I’m inside you, I feel at peace.”
“Me too, but I still think there’s one thing that will complete it.” I smiled as he nuzzled my nose.
“How can anything be better than this?”
I felt my heart race as I whispered the words, “It will be when you leave some of you inside of me.”
His eyes expanded and he hesitated. “You want me to come inside you?”
“Uh-huh.”
“You sure?”
I didn’t answer except for the calm smile in my eyes.
Jonah pushed deep inside me and rotated his hips. Our sex suddenly became about so much more than him and me. If our love could result in a part of me and a part of him merging together to create new life, it would be the closest thing to oneness we could ever achieve.
“Jonah, yes, I want to feel you come inside me.” I looked deep into his eyes and pushed against him in the most intimate dance between a man and woman.
Again and again, he thrust in and out until our breathing and moans were high-pitched and my eyes rolled back from the intense spasms in my body that came with the best orgasm of my life.
“Ohh, Mila, I’m coming.” Jonah’s body tensed up as he leaned his head back, closed his eyes, and made sounds of deep pleasure. “Ahhh.”
